Its the International Day of #Euskera the day. I still don't speak or understand it but here are some things I like about it. With apologies to euskaldunas.
* it's not like any other language I've seen and that made me realise how similar most European languages really are.
* -ak is the plural. I could have saved so much confusion by understanding that as soon as I arrived.
* "it's really hard!" - no idea but aside from my first point, the more words you learn the more links you see between them because of the way (compounding ?) the grammar works.
* bertsolaris are cool. Part of a bard-ish tradition of improvised poetry / storytelling that I think has cousin artforms in Iceland and British folk singing. (Is it a fishing thing?)
* speakers of minority languages in the UK, you would be so jealous of the support the language gets here to try and rebuild it after 70 or years of repression / prohibition.
* But if you think polemics about "why write police in Gaelic?!" are silly and overheated, don't ever start a conversation about minority languages with a Madrileño wearing a gilet.
If you want to hear it, I assume you can stream from eitb.eus (Basque BC) internationally.